The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-26 00:00:00

THE CIV. :ERICA. - (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW Yonx, Dec. 13. The capture of Atlanta by General Sherman on the Ist of September is the pivot upon which have turned all the political and nearly all the military events that have since occurred. - Worthless as the victory was to the Federal cause, it accomplished several important objects : it made an end of the Chicago platform; it consigned the fast increasing Peace Party to unpopularity, if not to odium ; it defeated Gen. M•Clellan, and with him the great Conservative party of the Democracy, which it threw back into all bat hopeless opposition; it triumphantly re-elected Mr. Lincoln and strength. ened in its position the revolutionary party that has for four years moulded the President to its will, and obliterated one by one the landmarks of the Constitution. Its military results have been quite as striking, and transferred the main interest of the war to a new and unexpected quarter. Usable to hold Atlanta after he had played rather than fought General Hood out of it, in imminent danger of being exterminated or forced to capitulate by the movement inaugurated in his rear, Sherman, the most fertile in resources of all the Northern Generals, endeavoured to convert his virtual discomfiture into a triumph, and resolved to dash through Georgia to the sea, The whole aspect of the war was conse quently changed. Gen. Grant—having knocked his head nine, if not ten, times against the defences of Richmond and Petersburg, and greatly hurt him self at each blow, though he never confessed the damage, and was always strong enough to butt again —lay quietly by awhile to watch the results of the daring strategy of his ablest lieutenant. He has had to watch for 29 days, during which time his knowledge of Sherman's progress, his defeats, his triumphs, his gains, his losses, and his deniesa tions, have been derived from Southern newspapers only. As time made it apparent that Sherman, if he made his way to the sea at all, would be driven to the southward of Savannah, in close proximity to the city, Gen. Grant took measures to prevent assistance being despatched from Charles. ton, and under his orders General Foster and Ad miral Dahlgren undertook an expedition from the coast with the object of cutting the Charleston and Savannah Railway at Pocataglio. It is alleged by the Southern journals that in this attempt the Fe. derals were defeated, with severe loss. The Northern journals, on the contrary, while admitting a first and serious repulse of their forces, assert that they ultimately succeeded in destroying the bridge at Pocataglio, and so severing the communication be• tween the two cities. Whatever the truth may be, General Grant was not idle in another direction. To occupy the attention of General Lee, and pre vent him from despatching any aid to General Beau• regard in Georgia, he made a new flank movement on Saturday last against the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, with the intention, it is assumed, of cap turing Weldon and holding it. The results are not known, though there have been rumours in town yesterday and today, untraceable to any authentic source, though believed by operators in Wall-street —that in this—his tenth or eleventh movement against the enemy since he crossed the Rapidan in May, Grant has been foiled, with heavy loss in killed and wounded, but without such discouragement to himself individually as will prevent him from trying again. At Atlanta, and in the rear as far as Nash ville and the borders of Kentucky, Hood, whom it is the fashion in the North to disparage, as if he were merely a Bobadil of the calibre of Pope, Hooker. and Burnside, has carried on a series of strategic movements which have compelled the evacuation of Atlanta by the Federal General left in charge of that greatly coveted position, shut up General Thomas in the fortifications of Nashville, seriously imperilled the Federal occupation of this great for. tress of Chattanooga, and opened the way for the march of a Confederate army through the rich and sympathising State of Kentucky, which only requires such an opportunity to take vengeance fir the atrocities committed against its citizens by Gans. Payne and Burbidge. Important news is every hour expected from each of these three points, or centres, of the war, though, for the moment, the anxiety to learn the fate of Gen. Sherman and his army is so great as to absorb most of the interest which a money.loving and a money-Lunting public has to bestow upon public affairs. As usual with the Americans w hen they are excited, they are con• fident of auccess. "Sherman will overpower all oh stecles—Sherma.n will reach the Rea with nine , . tenths of his army—Sherman will capture Savan nah—Sherman will thence march to Charleston— Sherman will destroy Charleston— Sherman will unite with Grant at Petersburg, and compel the evacuation of that city—Sherman and Grant will then make the final assault upon Richmond—Rich mond cannot resist the onslaught—the war ap. preaches its close," &c. Such are printed assertions of the Republican Press ; and such are the re-echoed opinions of the streets, the hotels, and the pot houses of . the city. The Government, it would appear, is almost, if not quite, as confident as its newspaper supporters that Sherman will pounce upon Savannah and capture it as an eagle would a rabbit, and has despatched large quantities of lint medicines, and other hospital stores to Port Royal under a competent armament of surgeons, to suc cour and relieve the wounded. Admiral Porter's fleet, it is alleged, is under orders to await Gin Sherman's force at Ossabaw Sound, about 35 miles to the south of Savannah, and proceeded to that point on Sunday last. The Southern papers, copious extracts from which appear from day to day in most of the Northern journals, paint, as a matter of course, a very different picture of Sherman's pro gress and prospects, and maintain not only that he cannot reach the coast with a third of his army, if at all, but that ho has been checkmated at every tarn, and forced to abandon all hopo of taking. 111 icon Augusta, and Milledgeville, or even of releasing and adding to his army the 20,000 F( (11111 prisoners in the great depot at Millen ; the whole of whom were safely removed into the interior, far beyond his reach, several days before his advanced cavalry appeared before the town. Some accounts that are credited as authentic place Sherman within 80 miles of Savannah at the latest dates, while quasi official statements eccourpg3 the public to believe that by the 14th (to.morrow), should no pitched battle occur in the interval, the victorious general Will hold both Savannah and Charleston at his mercy. This is loud boasting, and if not verified by results may—not for the first or the hundredth time —exemplify the folly of the Administration and the credulity of the people. The depletion of the Federal armies begins to ex. cite general attention throughout the North, and a new call fcr 500,C00 men, to produce, perhaps, 50,000, is everywhere spoken of. Meanwhile, the bounty brokers continue busily at work. Before Mr Lincoln issued his proclamation emancipating all the negroes of the South who were beyond his reach, and retaining in slavery all the negroes of the Border States who were unhappy enough to be the chattels of loyal owners, the Governor of Massa chusetts promised, in the name of his own State and in that of all the libertysloving people of the Nortb, that it the President would solemnly decree the ex tinction of slaves in the United States there would arise such an enthusiasm for the prosecution of the war that the highways and byways of New England would swarm with volunteers. The President did as was rcqaired of him, but slavery was not abo lished, neither did << swarms„ or any considerable numbtr of volunteers present themselves in Mas. sachusetts or anywhere else. Th ustiisappointed in his expectations of becoming the St. Bernard of a new crusade, the President was compelled to resort npdre wore ferred will.the to a more effective and more prosaic m et h od of re plenishing his armies. As American: profits to the h ar d s hips of the war, ing to pay Irishmen and Germans to fitght.w.ile _..„ they themselves staid at'horne to look after th e i r drdlarP, it was resolved to resort to a conscription. What the results were all the world knows. Boon• tits were piled - upon bounties, and recruits, know ing little or nothing of the cause to which they were willing to sell themselves, were found in large _ .... numbers in New York and Boston—the two At- lantic cities which era in most frequent communi cation with Cork and Bremen. ETery school book in its choice extracts from the speeches of the Amer. man orators who flourished in the early days of the War of Independence is filled with denunciations of the cowardly cruelty of the British Government in employing Hessians and other mercenaries to coerce and slaughter the colonists. But the Federal Government, under Mr Lincoln, has no greater scruples in this respect than George 111. and Lord North. Not only Hessians, Prussians, Bava rians,llanoverians, Wurtembergers, Bt unswickers, Saxons, and Austrians, but Hibernians by the thousand have been bought or: kidnapped into the armies of the Union, to take the place of the indus trious and thriving Yankees who desired the aboli. tion of slavery and the conquest of the South, but thought their own lives too valuable to their busi ness and their families to be sacrificed while the scum of Europe was available for the disagreeable work of fighting. The system of high bounties still flourishes, and the fear of another and more strin• gent conscription than the last keeps at fever-heat, Tne kidnappers, who are mostly Yankees of the kind popularly known as " regular down-eastern," the sharpest of the sharp, drive a flourishing trade in the hocussing and robbery of raw immigrants. If there be anything much more detestable in the African slave trade than there is in the recruiting business as carried on in the Atlantic ports of Ame rice, it can only be found in the horrors of the middle passage. In other respects, the bounty brokers and agents commit as many atrocities as their piratical compeers, and are slave dealers of the worst kind. In hundreds of instances they not only receive from the city, the State, or the Go. vernment the capitation fee of 20 dole. or 50 dole, but having enlisted the man against his will by the preliminary process of stupefying him with drugged whiskey, they rob him of the whole of the bounty money, to which he would be entitled if he were a bona fide volunteer. The time of the consular agents of Great Britain and the German Powers is all but monopolised by their effort to obtain the release :of the unfortunates thus inveigled into slaughter—efforts which in nine cases out of ten are wholly unavailing. How little the vocabulary of the occupation in which these men are engaged differs from that of the slave trade may be judged by the following circular issued by a Boston firm of man dealers, and distributed in this city to all the hotels and other places of business of which the proprietors and conductors are in posi tion to be solicited for employment : To -- Boston, Dec. 8, 1864, Dear Sir,—Knowing that your business brings you in connexion with persons who would like to join the army or navy, and we being engaged in filling town quotas, we will pay you as high a price for all the men you can furnish us as any other firm in the States. If you have any men you wish to dispose of you can address 11l by mail or telegraph in regard to price, &c. Office, 46, -- street. P---- and Co. Enclosed with the circular is a card addressed to "Brokers and Runners," informing them that the firm of P. and Co. (there is no necessity to advertise their name) guarantee to pay them "more for their men than any other firm in Boston or New Eng.. land." The wrongs committed by such chandlers in unsuspecting flesh and blood as P. and Co. have threatened so seriously to embroil the Federal Goa vernment with European Powers that Mr Lincoln thought it advisable in his Message to wash his hands of complicity with their misdeeds. "I re gard," he says, " our emigrants (immigrants) as one of the principal replenishing streams which are des tined by Providence to repair the ravages of inter nal war, and its waste of national health and strength. All that is necessary is to secure the flow of that stream in its present fulness; and to that end the Government must in every way make it mani fest that it neither needs nor desires to impose in voluntary military service upon those who come from other lands to cast their lot in this country." Mr Lincoln has shown that he is not particular in ad hering to the strict forms of law, and that he and his secretaries and Generals are quite willing to stretch a point, or several points, of constitutional or any other law on the plea of military necessity. Would it not bo worth his and their while to stretch a point with regard to the bounty-brokers, the man-sellers, the hocussers, the robbers, and the kidnappers who provide the Federal armies with unwilling, and, therefore, unless soldiers, who are first drugged, then cheated, and then sent to the army, as if they had no greater rights and were of no more recount in any way than the negroes of Dahomey ? IF, instead of allow - in; General Bur laidge or General Payne to hang the unhappy p!inters and farmers of the Border for the vague offence of " sympathy" with the South, he would hang one bounty-broker in New York and half a drzm in Boston, he would do more in one week to encourage the wholesome itflux of European labour into America than he could do in a 3 car by any" amount of rhetoric, or state paper verbiage, how ever plausible, which he might address to Congress in a message, and issue to the world in the shape of a proclamation. The alleged Confederate conspiracy to burn down New York bids fair to be speedily forgotten. Not a word is now said upon the subject, and not one person has been arrested against whom there was a reasonable grcuad of suspicion. The few idlers, vagabonds, and disreputable characters taken into custody on the first alarm have been discharged, and the 25,000 dole. offered by the city as a reward for the discovery of the incendiaries remains without a claimant. December 14. P.S.—A semi , offleial statement from the Army of the Potomac, dated on the 11th inst., informs the public that Grant has accomplished the object of his new movement against the Weldon Railroad. It would appear that either he had no design against Weldon itself, or that, having a design, he has been compelled to abandon it by the resistance of tho enemy. His forces under General Warren destroyed 14 miles of the read, burnt several depots or stations, and inflicted other loss and damage, suffering only a loss of from 40 to 60 men. The extreme severity of the weather is put forward es the explanation or apology for the small results of the expedition from which so much was anticipated, but as Gen. Warren drove before him a large supply of what is calved " beef on hoof ''—i. e., herds of live cattle—it is not easy to avoid believing that he had greater objects in view than the destruction of a few miles of railway, and that he intended to re main oa some part of the line, to isolate bath Petersburg and Richmond from their supplies in that direction. As it is, the movement is resolved into small proportions, and may be safely put into the long•extending list of Grant's failures. INFRINGEMENT OF THE EXCISE LAWS BY A DRUGGIST.—On Friday, at the Salford Town Hall, James Sherratt, chemist and druggist, Pendleton, was charged with preparing and selling methylated spirit as a beverage without a licence. Mr R. B. B. Cob bett, who appeared fur the inland Revenue, said that the spirit was allowed to be used free of duty in the arts and sciences, and with the view of preventing it being appro priated as a beverage, a quantity of naphtha was mixed with it before it was permitted to pass free of duty. The defen - lant had entered into the requisite bond, in which he affirmed that the spirit would only be used for pharmaceuti. cal purposes. Instead of carrying out this arrangement, he had sold the spirit as a beverage, and thereby evaded duty. Witnesses were called to support the charge. It was proved that on the 3d of October, Mr Hynes, supervisor of Excise, accompanied by Sergeants Hargreaves and Walker, of the detective police, watched near the defendant's shop. A man came out with a bottle, containing what he termed "Sherratt's Cordial." Possession of this was obtained, and some of the liquid was forwarded for analysis to the Inland Revenue laboratory,London. The mixture was found, upon the test being applied, to consist of methylated spirit,diluted with water. Several reports had reached the ears of the police that persona had purchased "Sherratt's Cordial, ,, and using it as a beverage, had become intoxicated. It ' was the prevalence of these rumours that induced the police to inform the Excise authorities.—Messrs Mort is and Heime, assistant chemists at the Inland Revenue labora tory, London, stated the test they had used.—Mr Heald, for the defence, said that the cordial was sold as a medicine, and that it contained a small quantity of quinine. The presiding magistrate, Mr Trafford, said that he believed the spirit was sold as a beverage under the guise of a medicine. For selling it without a licence the defendant would be fined £l2 loe, and for preparing and rellling it as a beverage £25, being on fourth of the full penalty in each c ire. 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The Financial Position of the Northern States, Mr Fessenden's financial report occupies nearly eight closely-printed columns of the New York papers. We extract a few passages RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1864. Stated in the usual form, by taking the actual receipts and expenditures of the first quarter as a distinct basis of calculations, the result is the same, viz.:—For the first quarter of the current year ending September 30, 1864, the actual recenate, as shown by the books of the Treasury. were as fallow Dollars. C. From customs From lands From direct tax From internal revenue . .. 46,502,859 92 From miscellaneous sources Total receipts .. . 75,212,350 02 Add balance in Treasury, July 1, 18 51 Receipts from all sources excepting loans ..... 91,051,017 73 For the three remaining quarters ending on the 30th of June, 1865, the estimates arc— From customs Internal revenue, Lands Misce laneous sources 51,000,000 OD • 203,C 0 1,00) CO 30,000 0:3 15,000,0.0 01 Total 269,0 3 1,00D 00 Total receipts from ordinary sources, actual and estimated, with balance on hand July 1, 1864 . . 363,351,047 73 The expenditures for the first quarter, ending September 30, 1864, were as follow: Civil Service . 8,712,422 51 Pensions and Indians 4,935,179 31 War department .. 256,200 288 51 Navy department Interest on public debt 19,921,054 48 Total, exclusive of principal of public debt 353,061,861 31 For the three remaining quarters tie estimated expenditures, based upon appropriations and estimated deficiencies, are : For the civil service For pensions and Indians For war department For navy department For interest on public debt Total of expenditures, actual and esti mated 1,245,729,135 75 These estimates include all unexpended appropriations from former years, and there may be deducted, as a pro bable unexpended balance at the close of the year, 3.50,000,000 dole, leaving the total amount, actual and esti mated, for the current year, 895,729,135 dots 75c. Deducting from the total of expenditure, actual and estimated, there will remain 512,374,188 dols 2c. If Congress should adopt the measures for increasing the internal revenue at an early day, the Secretary believes there may be added to the re ceipts from that source 50,000,000 dots, which being de ducted there would remain to be provided 482,374,188 dots 2c. ESTIMATED RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR. Any estimate which may be made of the probable re. ceipts and expenditures for the next fiscal year must neces sarily be liable to still grekter uncertainty. This remark applies more particularly to expenditures, for while, if exist ing laws remain unchanged, the amount of revenue may be calculated with reasonable certainty, it is impossible to anti cipate what the exigencies of war may require. On the one hand this may call for increased effort, and on the other it may be confidently hoped that the great struggle is near its termination, and that consequently the es7imate now submitted will prove far beyond the wants of the year. While any doubt remains, however, it would be unsafe to assume any other basis of calculation than one predicated upon the existing state of affairs. The receipts for the year ending June 30, 1366, are estimated as follows Dollars, 70,000,000 300,C 00,f 00 ••. l,( 00,0 C 0 25,0,0,600 From customs Internal duti , s Lands . Miscellaneous sources Agg, , T gate . 396,000,r 00 The expenditures are est mated as follows: Balance of unexpended appropriations 350,000,000 For the civil service Pensions and Indians The War Department Nary Department Interest on public debt Aggregate Fut from this aggregate there m iy be de:.ucted a, likely to rt main unexpended at the close of the year F50,000,00C Total 818,256,005 Deduct estimated receipts from ordinary sources,396 000,000 dols, there will remain to be provided for by loans 422,256,005 dols. To this should be added for the redemption of excess of certificates of indebtedness 47,365,000 dole, making the whole amount to be provided for by loans 469,621.005 dots. A , sumint, the correctness of these estimates, the whole debt on the Ist day of July, 1863, would bo found by adding the foregoing amount of 422,255,005 dols to the estimated debt on July ;, 1865, 2,223,664,067 dols, giving 2,345,320,682 dols as the amount of the debt at the close of the next fiscal year. The calculation is made on the same basis of receipts as that assumed f,r the current year. It is quite probable, in the judgment of the Commissioner of lutes's tl Revenue, that 3,00;',090 dole may be received in another year from that source, without the additional legislation suggested 133 him, Should this supposition be veriffid, and she ue a taxes proposed for this year be laid and continued, an additional fifty millions might be expected from internal revenue. The secretary has, however, thought it wiser to name 300,000,000 as all that would probably be realised. It will be observed that the actual receipts from ordinary sources for the last fiscal year varied materially from the estimates, particularly from customs and internal revenue. This variation is im putable, in great part, to the legisla , ion of Congress at its last session, increasing largely the rates of duty on foreign and domestic articles. It is apprehended, that similar results will not follow for the residue of the present year in both these particulars. The increase of duties on imports under the act of June 30, 1864, has already had the effect to de crease importations to a considerable extent, and the same effect will be likely to continue. So that estimating the re ceipts of the three remaining quarters by those of the first in the light of former experience, it will not be safe to cal culate upon revenue from customs much exceeding 70,000,000 dols for the current year. In •the judgment of the secretary, this disadvantage, in a financial point of view, is more than counterbalanced by the stimulus afforded to domestic industry and the consequent increased revenue from that source. From internal revenue a diffe rent and far more favourable result may be anticipated. It will be noticed that instead of 77,599,703 dole 59c there was received from this source in the past year 108,260,320 dots 57c under the same law which in ten months of the pre ceding year yielded only 37,640,787 95e, The new law, which went into operation on July 1 last, largely increased these duties, although it will probably fail to produce the amount of revenue hoped for, may, if not materially changed, together with the special income tax imposed by the joint resolution of July 2, 1864, be safely estimated to produce the sum of 25,000,000 dols, should the business of the country be ordinarily prosperous, The same causes which, under preceding laws, produced so large an increase in the second year, would be likely to have a similar effect, to some extent, under the now law ; so that at least the amount of 25,000,000 dols may be expected from it in ano ther year without the aid of a special income tax. But this amount is not, and ought not to be, satisfactory. Three hunt red millions at least should be realised from internal duties. It is for Congress to,select the sources and devise the modes in which this most desirable result can be ob tained, and the report of the Commissioner of internal Re venue is referred to for his views on this important point, as well as for many valuable suggestions having reference to the samo general subject. DEFICIENCY TO LE PROVIDED roll• From preceding statements it appears that, - exclusive of the receipts from ordinary sources, the amounts following aro to be provided, viz. :—For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865, 570,727,608 dols Ile; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1866, 469,621,005 dols l7c—total, 1,040,345,513 dots 28e. Deduct amount now authorised and balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1864, 560,063,188 dole 20, it leaves a balance to bs provided for by additional legislation of 480,285,325 dole 26c. It will be observed that this ba lance is predicated upon contingencies which may not occur, and calculations which may prove deceptive. It would be unsafe, therefore, to limit so closely the pro visions to be made by Congress for meeting the expendi ture of this and the succeeding years. To raise a large por tion of the amount neceasary to meet these authorised ex penditures, it is obvious that recourse was to be had to loans, which have been already in part negociated. The necessities of former years have led to many expedients, as it is apparent from the diversity of forms which our securi ties present. As the debt increases from year to year, bor rowing becomes more difficult. Embarrassed as the country is with two systems of bauking, and obstructed as the Government is by a currency wholly beyond its control, it is manifest that to push its owh circulation far, if it all beyond its present limit, could only be juslfied by absolute necessity. To thrust our securities upon the market in such amounts as it is not able to bear and to retain no check upon stock jobbing combinations, must exercise a disastrous effect upon the public credit, and operate injuriously upon large numbers who have heretofore invested their means liberally and confidingly in Government issues. The Secretaty is not unmindful that in the opinion of many per sons conversant with financial matters a recourse should be had to foreign matkets, and in two acts of Congress, one of which is still in force, authority has been given to negotiate a foreign loan. This, if practicable at all, on terms which the Secretary could feel justified in acceptitv, would in his opinion, at the present time, and under existing laws, be so inconsiderable in amount that its effects would be merely temporary, and would afford an alleviation rather than a relief. Our bonds have already, to a considerable amount, been sought for abroad and to that extent the home market has been relieved and strengthened. Com munication with Europe is now so easy and regular, in telligence is transmitted so rapidly, businesss facilities are so abundant, that foreign markets ere altiaost at our own doors, and a demand abroad is felt almost at the same moment and;supplied without injurious delay. To effect a foreign loan would not, as it has seemed to the Secretary, add much if at all to the whole amount of sales unless stimulated by efforts and inducements which our financial condition has not as yet called for, and though a certain advantage might be gained in the power to control in some degree the rate of foreign exchange by the deposit of allarge sum to be drawn against as occasion might require. The possible benefit thence to be derived has not seemed suffi cient to counterbalance other and opposing considerations. This nation has been able thus far to conduct a domestic war of unparalleled magnitude and cost without appealing for aid to any foreign people. It was chosen to demonstrate its power to put down insurrection by Ps own strength, and furnish no pretence for doubts of its ability to do so, either to domestic or foreign foe. The people of the United States have felt a just pride in their position before the world. In the judgment of the Secretary it may be doubted whether the national credit abroad has not been strength. ened and sustained by the fact that foreign investments in our securities have not been sought by us, and whether we have not found a pecuniary advantage in self-reliance ; but however this may be, it seemed to the Secretary that, even if inclined to attempt the negotiation of a foreign loan, the time was unpropitious, and the difficulties attending such a negotiation tivhile exchange was subject to rapid and vio lent fluctuations, upon any safe terms, appeared almost in surmountable. Whatever risk was to be incurred must necessarily fall on the Government. Tie thought it wi,er I therefore to wait until events should have more fully de monstrated the inevitably favourable result of the contest in which the nation is engaged, which time he believes to be near at hand, rather than venture on an experiment which, if successful, could afford but temporary relief, and a failure in which might be attended with evils of a very serious character. Believing the country can, if it will, sustain for a long time to come aay burden which the war is likely to impose, the Secretary has deferred an undertaking which seemed to him so doubtful of success and so questionable in its results. It may be added to these consideration that to have the interest on our public debt payable at home, and to our own rather than to a foreign people, are advantages the value and importance of which Can hardly be too highly estimated. Upon this report or budget the city writer of the New York herald has the following remarks The report of the Secretary to the Treasury leads Wall • street to expect further issue of currency to an indefinite amount ; for his complaint against the restrictive provisions of the act of July 2, 1861, and hie promise to suggest, at an early day, such modifications as be considers necessary, leave no doubt in the public mind as to the haphazard policy he will pursue if the finances are left under his control. " In his judgment a wide discretion should be entrusted to the officer charged with the duty of negotiating loans, in order that he may be enabled to avoid unexpected diffi culties occasioned by possible conditions of the money mar ket, The discretion thus confided should, in the opinion of the Secretary, include the power of increasing the cur rency." What is the nation to expect from a finance Minis ter who talks in this way, when not much less than 1000 millions of currency, including the State and national bank issues, already flood the land, and when this currency in flation has done more than the entire funded debt to depre ciate the gold value of the paper dollar to about 41c., at which it stands to-day ?Mr Fessenden would seem to be deliberately inviting the worst evils that inevitably over= take excessive issues of irredeemable paper money. And yet while asking for the wide--too wide—discretionary power, he appeals to the people to save him from the necessity of using it in these words :—" Nor does he believe that a pa triotic people, struggling for national existence and pose sessed of ample means, would compel him to adopt a mea sure so fraught with injurious consequences as an issue of paper money beyond the limit so prescribed." And " to no individual would any considerable addition to the circula tion in any form be more objectionable than to the present head of the 'treasury Department, and no one would re sort to such a measure when the circulation was adequate to the wants of business with more reluctance." Herein we have a virtual admission that he is ready to increase the volume of the currency indefinitely to float his loans, or when there is in his opinion not enough money to supply the wants of trade. If 160,000,000 dols in coin and 140,000,000 dol bank notes were sufficient for the needs of commerce in the whole of the loyal States at and before the time of the suspension of specie payments, nearly 1,000 millions ought to be enough now. Mr Fessenden, unfortunately, seems to overlook the fact that the more paper money there is in cir culation the more we require ; for every addition to its bulk tends to its depreciation, and consequently the greater is the amount required for common uses. When thousands of millions of French assignats had been issued, where before hundreds had sufficed, the Directory still wanted and issued more because their purchasing power had diminished in proportion to the extant of their issue ; and so it was with the old continental money of this country, and the end of both was worthlessness and repudiated by the people. But the warnings of history may well be neglected by one who has failed to profit by the great lesson taught by the fiscal policy thus far pursued under this administration. " It is for the people (says Mr Fessencien) to determine whether the necessary means shall be furnished by way of loans aed the circula tion be restrained within safe limits, or whether they will ['refer to endorse the evils of exorbitant prices, with a loss of credit in the:present and a debt of needless magnitude en tailed upon the fteure. Their financial officer can only submit to their decision end act as the necessities of the occasion may demand." As he makes no obj , etion to the amount of currency outstanding, bun like Oliver Twist, asks for more, it is to be inferred that he considers it as yet within " safe Emits." He speaks of loans as the only al ternative of currency infl ttion, apparently placing no reli ance upon increased taxation. Indeed, in that part of the report where he refers specially t o t axa ti on, he estimates the probable receipts (after a ddi ng what he considers a centingcnt sum of 50,000,000 dols.) from internal revenue at only 3C0,0000,000 dots. for the current fiscal year. It is easy, however, for anyone acquainted with the resources of the nation to see that double this sum might be raised with out pressing unduly upon any section of the community. But upon this important branch of his subject the secretary has nothing to say worth mentioning. Ho avoids it as he has avoided telling the people what the national debt is at the pretent time, and the ratio of this from the Ist of July, up to which time his statements only extend, to the end of October, contradict his estimates for the future, and he leaves the country in a fog, to get out of its financial em barrassments in the b st way i t can. NEW YORK. A private letter from New York on tho Ist, gives us the following items : The recent attempt to burn the city has produced a vivid sensation. Although attempts were made in 16 different places simultaneously, yet I do not think the aggregate damage will exceed 10,000 dols. The immediate effect of this nefarious business is a rich harvest to the fire insurance companies. Everybody is overhauling his policy. Those now insure who neer insur'd befor', And those who were insured insure the more. The theory of the Republican p ress that this wholesale attempt at incendiarism is a Southern conspiracy, in retalia tion for Federal atrocities in the Shenandoah Valley, is not generally credited in this city. The whole affair looks like a studied fiasco. The object seems to have been to excite an alarm rather than to destroy property. Had the rebels been at work they would have selected "a dry, windy night," at about 2 o'clock in the morning, with the fire-plugs frozen, and they would not have selected New York, which is "the city of refuge" to their friends, Mr Cranston, the proprietor of the New York Hotel (which, with the Clarendon and the Brevoort House, escaped the attention of the incendiaries), is of the opinion that it was the work of thieves, He has addressed the fol lowing pointed and pithy note on the subject to the editor of the New York Times " New York Hotel, Sunday, Nov. 27. "Sir,—ln your issue of this morning I find the follow ing query, headed Information wanted.' "' Why was there no attempt to fire the New York Hotel?' (Signed) " INQUIRING MIND,' "Editor Times says.-4 Ask the incendiaries.' "This does not directly point to me; yet, as proprietor of the New York Hotel, I feel that I can give Inquiring Mind' a little information. "In the first place, the New York Hotel is almost ex clusively a family hotel, and kept always full, so that a sus picious character, one who travels only with a small black leather bag cannot obtain a room. In fact, it is the general order that rooms be only given to persons known, and suck as may be introduced by resident guests of the house. "Since the war commenced the New York Hotel has had fewer politicians for its guests than most other hotels, and no man has has been arrested and taken from it to govern ment fortresses for political offences. "'THE ASTOR HOUSE THE RENDEZVOUS. " 'Haynes was in the habit of receiving frequent visits from mysterious individuals, and from this circumstance it is believed that the Astor House was a sort of rendezvous for all the conspirators. Fires were made in his room very often according to the chambermaid, and remarkable con sultations seemed to be held there.' " From the above, taken from to-day's Herald, ycu see the Astor House was the rendezvous of the conspirators. Yet Stetson is not accused of keeping an hotel for thieves and incendiaries. I am led to believe he is only saved by having his house set on fire. "Will you oblige me by asking Inquiring Mind' if I cannot convince toy fellow-citizens of my ' loyalty' in some other manner than by setting fire to my hotel.—Very truly your obedient servant, " H1R.411 CRANSTON." This capital " card" is full of good hits, and is one of " the topics of the day." I have a little anecdote to tell you apropos of the "New York Hotel," which ad. mirably illustrates the coolness, firmness, and independence of its proprietor. On the night of the Presidential election, when everybody was half crazy - for the " returns," the telegraphic operator at the general office refused to give them to the opeiator in the office of the New York Hotel I Whereupon Mr Cranston ordered the wires to be cut leading into his hotel This severed the connection with all the hotels above him, including the " One Horse Tavern,' occupied by General Butler I Of course there was a great hue and ory, but not until the next day, when the "gene ral office" had made a handsome apology, would Cranston consent to the "restoration of the union." The cause of this petty spite is owing to the fact that Mr Cranston has always been of the opinion that the difficulty between the North and the South could and should have been settled without a resort to force. He is a " State-rights man," and does not believe that a eoerced union of states is either democratic or desirable. The New York Hotel before the war was the great resort of Southern gentlemen with their families. Here they converted cotton and sugar into "Charles Heiddieck" and "Chateau Margaux," and here several Southern refugees continue to reside. It is aloe the favourite hotel for the better class of Europeans; the "home" of the well-known Commodore Judkins, of the "Cunard fleet," and the palace of Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde, who passed six weeks there in the summer of 1861. In plain English, the New York is an aristocratic house, and hence it is not loved by the " war Christians." Cranston is not only a man of wealth, but of wit, and is fond of books, pictures, and fine horses. He drives the best four-in-hand in the Central Park ; and for a stranger to hail from the New York on visiting this city is like having one's letters addressed to the " Carlton," the "Atheneum," or the "Cosmopolitan "in London. So much for hotels and the late phosphorus phenomenon. Have you seen the scur rilous article in the Now York Times, on the departure of of Mr Sala, the clever correspondent of the London 2'elo graph? It is evidently from the pen of the responsible editor the Hon. Henry J, Raymond, popularly known as "the Little villain," who has just been elected to the Lower House of Congress, but who aspires to succeed Mr Dayton in Paris, who, it is understood, will resign his post in the spring. Raymond is quite a master in the art of editorial vituperation—and he has done his best in Ws farewell to Sala I At the same time he " improves the occasion "to heap abuse upon Mackay of the Times, whom he treats as a mere mass of malicious stupidity. Before the war not only Mr Raymond of the Times, but his master, the Secre tary of State at Washington, regarded Dr Mackay as a poet and philosopher of the ' , first water," and delighted to do him honour by giving him splendid dinners I But if any man dare to differ in opinion from the present "party in power." he is sent to " Coventry," and thence to Hades I The Governor of New Brunswick and the Frederickton City Council, The New Brunswick papers give an account of a singular charge brought by the Mayor of Frede. ricton, New Brunswick, against the Lieutenant Governor of the province, resulting in the passing of a strong vote of censure on the Governor by the Fredericton City Council. We quote the following summary of the affair from the Carleton Sentinel: A man from the States was a few weeks ago brought before the Mayor of Fredericton charged with endeavour lag to entice soldiers to desert. Oa an examination the Mayor declared that the charge was not proven, and he therefore discharged the man, but from evidence it appeared to his worship that the soldiers who had brought the charge had not treated the accused right, and suspicions were awakened that they had picked his pocket. Shortly after• wards, his excellency the Governor sent for the Mayor, and the following conversation took place. We quote the state ment made before the City Council by his worship—" The Governor said he was informed that there had been such a trial, and that the prisoner was acquitted, whilst from the evidence he should have been convicted. I then stated to hica that I considered the evidence was not such as could convict a prisoner, and in consequence acquitted him. I then, at the Governor's request, went into the details of the case, and in the course of my remarks said I believed one of the soldiers had picked the prisoner's pockets. The Go vernor asked why the soldiers were not tried for that offence. I said there was uo specific charge made against them, and had arrived at this opinion from remarks of witnesses (alluding to picking the prisoner's pockets). I also said I believed the prisoner was a native of New Brunswick, and had been an American sulker. The Governor then asked why he was not brought up for that offence. I said there was not suffleient evidence to proceed on such a charge—it was considered a political offence, and people were averse to turning informers in cases of that kind. The Governor then rose in a state of excitement, and said that every man in the province is a traitor, and that there were hundreds of such peasons (meaning Yankee deserters) in the country. I then rose up and replied, I extremely regret that your Excel.- lency should have made such an assertion as respects the people of the province in the presence of myself, the Mayor of the cly of Fredericton." The Governor then asked if murder was committed would information be given ? I replied that that was an offence of a different nature. I also said her Majaty's Government gave licence to persons to go into foreign service, and in Great Britain when persons turned informers it became very often necessary to place them under protection, and after the trial to send them out of the country to save their liver. The conversation he had with hie Excellency was, he considered, strictly private, in the Governor's own room, and he had no idea that it would have been mentioned out of Government House. however the first intimation he received that the conversation with the Governor had been communicated to others was hem the following letter. Then follows a letter from Major Sewell, of the 15th 116- giraent, calling upon the Mayor to substantiate the accusa tion against the soldiers—to which the Mayer replied de clining the honour of looking up evidence to sift the case, but offering, if a charge was made against the men, to do everything in Lis power to assist. To this Major Sewell writes the Mayof that he has reported the whole proceed ings to the officer commanding the troops, for him to take such steps "as he may deem necessary." Soon after the Mayor got snother letter from the Major enclosing one from Lieutenant Colonel Grierson, in which he states that ‘, the Mayor has made an assertion ho is evi dently unable to prove, a most unjustifiable proceeding, and one that renders him liable to an action for libel." After other remarks he concluded by saying that the matter should be laid before Colonel Cole, on his return, to rest with him to take action for libel against the Mayor or otherwise, as he may deem expedient; to which his Worship made the following spicy reply :—" Fredericton, November 2,1864.—5 i have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, of your note of yesterday's date covering a foolish and rather bullying letter from Colonel Grierson, Feeling convinced that Colonel Cole possesses more good sense than his two subordinates, I have no expectation that the libel threat will be acted upon. Should he, however, think proper to take legal proceedings, I shall be quite ready to meet your high authority' in a court of justice.—l have the honow, &c. J. A. Beckwith, Mayor of Fredericton. To Major Sewell, commanding at Fredericton." The City Council, after proceeding to discuss the whole matter, passed the following series of resolutions :—" At an adjourned special meeting of the City Connell of the city of Fredericton, hell in the City Council-room, in Frederic ton, on Thursday, the 17th November inst., the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :—Whereas, from statements made by his Worship the Mayor, at a meeting of the Council held last evening,.it appears that the deci- sion given in his Court in the case of a prisoner tried for enticing soldiers to desert, was brought in question by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor; and whereas, from the evidence adduced, it appears that nothing but true British justica was meted out to the said prisoner; there fore resolved—That this Council fully approve and endorse the decision given in the said case by his Worship the Mayor and Alderman Clark, and the subsequent action taken by his Worship in the matter ; and further resolved—That this Council, on behalf of the citizens of Fredericton, cannot allow the_inhabitants of this loyal pro vince to be branded as traitors without •giving it their un qualified denial; and further resolved—That this accusa- tion, coming from the highest official dignitary in thepro vines, is a direct insult to every British subject residing in New Brunswick." THE PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE.—I❑ August lest Bishop Pattebon visited Santa Cruz, in the Melanesian group. "A great crowd," says the Guardian, " assembled to meet the Bishop, who waded to shore, and went and act for some time in a large house in the village, the boat awaiting his return at the edge of the reef. Mean while many canoes were out with the schooner trading in the most friendly manner, and the boat while waiting for the Bishop was surrounded by natives standing on the reef or swimming in the sea. Nothing occurred to cause the least uneasiness until, on the Bishop returning to the boat and getting into it, there was some difficulty in clearing the boat from the natives swimming round her. There was nothing unusual in this, but the men on the reef began to bend their bows, and before the Bishcp could ship the rud der a shower of arrows fell full upon the boat. Mr Pearce and Edwin Nobbs were struck at once, the former by an arrow that pierced his breast, the latter by an arrow in the ' cheek. The boat pulled away, some canoes following, and then Fisher Young, who was pulling the stroke oar, was shot through the wrist, but still pulled on. After some minutes the canoes gave over the chase, the sail was got up, and the boat gained the schooner. The cause of this sudden attack remains unknown. There is no doubt but that it was unpremeditated. The most probable account of it is that some European vessel had visited the island, and that some outrage had been committed which the natives supposed was about to be repeated when they saw some force, however gentle, used to free the boat. The arrows having been ex treated and the wounds dressed, the greatest anxiety fel lowed. Were the arrows poisoned ? The wounds were kept open, and for a little - vhilo there was good hope, Bat the tetanus began with Fisher Young, and after fearful agony le died just as the schooner was making the harbour at Vanua Lava. He was buried oa shore, and Edwin Nobbs was well enough to attend the funeral. But lockjaw soon camo on, and he lay suffering for five long days. 'For five days and nights he never slept,' the Bishop _writes; he never murmured, never uttered a sound of com plaint; at sea. knocking about, detained by heavy contrary winds from reaching Norfolk Island and seeing rather and mother, brothers and sisters, there before ho died, he never murmured,' He was released from his sufferings on Sept 5. The many friends of the Pitcairn people in England will learn from the death of Elwin Nobbs and Fisher Young that their interest has not been misplaced. Mr Pearce, afterhis terrible wound, borne by him also with great cheerfulness i and fortitude, appeared to be again quite strong and wi,n_.l Naval and Military Intelligence. MALTA, Dec, 16.—The Revenge, 73. bearing the flag of Rear Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8., Captain the Hon. F. A. Foley, arrived on Sunday evening at 6 o'clock from Tunis. She left Malta on Saturday, Nov. 5, and arrived at Syracuse on the following morning, where she saluted the Italian flag with 21 guns, which compliment was returned by the garrison with an equal number of guns, On Wed nesday morning, Nov. 9, she proceeded to Palermo, and reached that port on the morning of the 10th, when the usual salutes were again exchanged, and the customary visits of ceremony took place between the English Admiral, the Governor General of Sicily, and other high officials of the town. At the close of a week (Nov. 16), which was very agreeably spent in visiting the different objects of interest in that delightful part of Sicily, the Revenge sailed for Pale ma Bay, in the island of Sardinia, and on her voyage to that port encountered a succession of strong N.W. gales, in which she carried away her maintopsail yard, sprung her crossjack yard, and split several of her sails. In the dange rous work of repairing these damages, during the violence of the gale, not the least accident of any kind occurred, which says much for the order and discipline maintained on board this magnificent ship. From Palma Bay, which she entered on the 21st November, she proceeded, after a stay of three days, to Port Mahon, in the island of Minorca, stay ing there 10 days. At this place extensive fortifications are being erected at the northern entrance of the harbour. The forts and outworks extend, over a large area, and aro in tended when complete to mount 1,000 guns, while the re quisite garrison will be from 10,00 to 12,000 men. These works were commenced about seven years ago, and are ex pected to occupy some six years more before completion, There are at present about 1,000 men employed in their construction, drawn chiefly from the Artillery, Engineers, and infantry which form the garrison. On the 6th December the Revenge left Port Mahon for Tunis, arriving in the bay on the evening of the Bth, having experienced calms and light variable winds the whole way. There were at Tunis the French ironclad frigate Invincible, and the aviso L'Ae'if, the Italian corvette Etna, and the English gun ves sel Tyrian. Her Majesty's corvette Racer, 11, arrived at Tunis from Malta on Dec. 9, the evening previous to the departure of the Revenge for this island. On Tuesday morning the Gibraltar, 81, bearing the flag of Vice Admi• ral Smart, K. 11., Capt. J. C. Prevost—the Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse—the Orlando, 4G, Capt. G. G, Ran dolph—and the Resistance, ironclad, 16, Captain W. C. Chamberlain, left Malta harbour to exercise their crews in firing at a target, and returned again the same evening. Capt. J. C. Prevost, commanding H.M.S. Gibraltar, who has been appointed Captain of the Gibraltar Dockyard, in place of Capt. Ommanney, promoted to Rear Admiral, will, it is said, shortly proceed in his ship to the Rock, where it is expected his successor, Capt, R. Coate, will meet him, to take tbe command of that ship, and return with her to Malta." Our Malta correspondent adds the following intelligence in a letter dated Valetta, the 17th inst.:— "Her Majesty's s hip Vi c toria arriv e d thi s morning at ti o'clock. She will h o i s t th e Admiral's flag, un d er a salute, at noon. On Thursday the whole of the marines of the squadron landed at Calcara-gate, under the command of Capt. A. Ellis, senior captain of the Royal Marines on the station, and marched out into the country, returning on board their respective ships in the afternoon. They wore in heavy marching order, and presented a good appearance, especially the Artillery, which arc as fine a body of men as can bo seen anywhere, their new uniform and busbies , at tracting no little at'ention. The day previous a grand review of all the troops in garrison was hold on tho Floriana parade ground, in the presence of his Excellency Lieut.- Gen. Sir Henry Storks." On Thursday the Duke of Somerset and the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey, after lunching with Port Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, at Mount Wise, proceeded to Daven port dockyard, where they were received by Rear-Admiral Thomas M. C. Symonds, C. 13., the superintendent, and the officers of the establishment. One of the first objects of inspection was the southern steam saw -mills in the large room of which, above, the fire occurred on Nov. 25. His Grace and Sir Frederick went on board the Liverpool, 39, repairing in No, 1 dock, and descended under the bottom of the Prince Consort, 45, which is undergoing extensive altes rations in No. 3 dock, They also visited Keyharn steam yard, and went round the north basin, which is being en larged. After a cursory inspection of the Caledonia, Zea lous, Ocean, and Enterprise they left the yard, and going to Plymouth, joined the South Devon train, at 5 o'clock, for Totness. One of the results of this unexpected visit appears to be the suspension of further work on the Liver pool, the decks of which were being. rapidly caulked, The alterations on board the Prince Consort aro rather Exten sive, Her rig as a bark is to be altered to that of a ship, and extra armour plating is to be fitted on her bows. Scup pers are fitting to each deck, to allow the water to run oil more freely than those fitted originally, which were found inefficient when she left Plymouth for Liverpool in October, 1863, and was obliged to take refuge in Dublin Bay. It will be recollected that at first scuppers were fitted to the upper deck only, and that they discharged below the armour plates Her ventilation is 'extremely defective, and holes are now drilling through the plates to receive about a dozen of Lang's scuttles, which will also give light to the cabins, The zinc belt which appea.ed to answer 60 well for the first few menthe, and for that pet iod continued comparatively bright, is to be removed, as it is found to be too much submerged to be reached with brushes, and without being kept bright its protective action is diminished, if not lost, Like the Caledonia, the Ocean, and the Zealous, the armour plates of the Prince Consort are to be sheathed with three - inch teak, EiX inches below their extreme depth, and two feet above the water line, The screw steamship Russell, GO, late coastguard ship at Falmouth, was removed on Thursday from Ilamosz•3 iuto the basin at K'?yham steamyard, for the purpose of being cleared out and broken up. in the list, published in :the Sun of Saturday, of gentle•• men cadets of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, who have passed for commissions in the Royal Artillery,between the names of Messrs Tyzick and St. Georgo the following four names were omitted :—Charles F. Errington, Charles E. Brown, Richard W. O'Grady, and Arnold do Baruch • son. Dreadful Accident at Gibraltar. It is our painful duty to record a dreadful accident which occurred in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar yesterday, by which five persons lost their liven, three of them officers of the garrison and the two others natives of this city. An Irish jaunting car, with four officers, the driver, and a Postilion on the leading horse, were carried away by the current when crossing the mouth of the stream at the Orange-grove, and of the whole party one only, Capt. Hop kins, 15th Regiment, escaped with life, all the others having perished. The circumstances of this deplorable event are as follows :—Capt. Hopkins and Lieut. Boultbee, of the 15th, left the garrison in a boat yesterday morning for the pur pose of shooting between tho rivers.' The threatening aspect of the weather led theta to return by land instead of by sea, as they originally had intended. On their way back they overtook at the first river Ensigns Vernon and Blunt, of the 9th Regiment, who had also gone into SiAtin for the purpose of shooting, and were re turning in a jaunting car. Tue latter invited the officers of the 15th to take a seat in their conveyance, which they did, and the whole party proceeded along the beach on their way to the rock. No apprehensions seem to have been felt that the stream which runs into the sea at the Orange-grove was rendered; dangerous by the rain which has been falling all day, and the horses took the ford at the usual place at the meuth. But this ordinarily insignificant stream had been swollen by the rain, and was rushing with the force of a torrent, and when near the centre, the horses wore carried off their legs, the car upset, and the party on it left struggling in the water. Captain Hopkins and Lieutenant Boultbee were on 'the ride of the car facing seawards, and Ensigns Vernon and Blunt on the land side. Captain Hop kins occppied on his side the seat nearest the shafts, and to this circumstance he attributes his escape. When the cur rent was carrying horses and car into the sea he sprang for ward as far as he could, in order to clear the plunging and struggling horses. The leap carried him from near the centre to close to the edge of the main current, and after being whirled about for a minute or two, he was cast by an eddy, and the breakers coming in from the sea into slack water, recovered his footing and got to land w ith the assist ance of a Spaniard from the Orange-grove, who rushed into the water to his assistance. Lieut. Boultbee, who sprang out at the back of the car, and consequently leaped into the strong central current, was swept into the Bea, the rapidity of the stream preventing his recovering his foot ing. Ensigns Vernon and Blunt were carried off in the same way, Captain Hopkins is a good swimmer, but was whirled and tossed about like a straw upon the current, and utterly powerless to extricate himself until he was carried, as above stated, into still water. As soon as the accident was observed at the village at the Orange-grove, a boat was launched and manned and went to the rescue, but did not succeed in saving any of the party. The body of Lieu tenant Boultbee, after the space of half an hour, was washed up on the beach close to the stream, and that of Ensign Blunt was cast up on nearly the same spot about a quarter of an hour afterwards. Lieutenant Boulabee'a body was taken at once to a neighbouring hut, and Captain Hopkins endeavoured by friction and other means to re store animation, but all the efforts of himself and those who assisted him were fruitless. The bodies of Ensign Vernon and also the driver of the car, Daniel Sullivan, a youth of about 30 years of age, and of Rafael Barea, the postilion, a boy of 12, have not yet been found. The car floated out to sea, the shaft, horse was drowned, being en cumbered by the ear, but the leader was still alive and striking out for the shore, when the boat took bim in tow and brought him to land, with the dead horse and car t o which ho was ha rnesse d. C a pt a i n Hopkins reports that the lieutenant commanding the post of oarabiner t s at t h e Orange -grove and ano th er Spanish official, were, were on the spot and rendered every assistance in their power tc wards recovering the bodies, besides courteously and kindly making offers of personal assistance to himself."— Gibraltar Chronicle, Dec, 14. King Louis of Bavaria is still at Itome, where he continues to visit the museums and different monu ments. His Majesty was recently present at a fete given by M. Sohnelz, director of the French Art-Workmanship Exhibition, The Society of Arts having offered to distribute prizes for art-workmanship on Saturday, there was a privets view of articles which had been sent 10 for competition. The council of the society, seeing that therewas a growing desire on the part of the art workmen to come forward and compete for honours in their several handicrafts, appointed a committee in March, 1863, to consider and report what prizes the society should offer far the encouragement of art workmanship applicable to manufactures, an& on the recommendation of that committee it was decided to offer prizes for the successful rendering or modelling in terracotta, plaster and wax, repousse work in any metal; hammered work in iron, brass, or copper ; carving on ivory ; chasing in metal, enamA painting on metal, gold, or copper; paint ing on porcelain ; inlays in wood, marqueterie cr Buhl, ivory, or metal ; engraving on glass, and eel' broidery. Tne designs were furnished by artists of great reputation, to ho translated into the varieus modes of workmanship. The attempt was so sue' cessful last year that the society was encouraged to repeat it this year, and hence the present exhibi tion. The specimens of workmanship amount to nearly a hundred, end are arranged into two (livid slow, the first comprising works executed in carving on marble, stone, or wood and ivory, chasing is bronze, etching and en grav i ng on meta l , d ecora tive painting, cameo cutting, wall mosaics, gem engrav ing, &e., and these are executed from prescribed designs. The second division consists of works in wood carving without prescribed designs. As a whole, the articles exhibited are remarkable for completeness of detail and finish, and present excel' lent specimens of special handicraft. Amongst them may be noticed a carving in stone of a Boy and Dolphin, by Lennor. Raphael's Three Graces) in repousse work, and a work of the same kind, to metal, after a Flemish salver, by Septimus Beres* ford. These good specimens of hammered work is brass, and painting on porcelain, and the wall me' saics after Bertini, of Milan, are noticeable, as 10 some bookbinding after an Italian specimen. The wood carving is finely manipulated, and comprises human figures in alto or bas-relief, animals, and natural foliage, fruit and flowers, which latter are disposed in designs for chimney pieces, freizts, and panels. The exhibition will no doubt tend to a d ' vance the object which the society have in ViONV. Singular Discoveries. The salt mines of Hallstadt in Austria are We ll known as being among th e r i c h es t i n E urope; but a new interest will henceforth attach to them in Oa' sequence of the patient researches continued for the last 14 years by their present director, M. Ramsau r f as we collect from a letter addressed by M. Fourhe / to M. Elie de Becumoat, and by the latter commit' nicated to the Academy of Sciences. In the neigh' bourhood of Hallatadt there is the Rudolfsthurm , a tower in the midst of an Alpine valley, in which the salt mines above alluded to are situated. Here M. Ramseur has discovered and explored n o less than 963 tombs, of the ages of bronze and iron. l a some of these tombs the skeleton was found e ntire, in other only the ashes; in others the bodies wer e found to have been only partially burnt ; sometimes the head only, and sometimes the feet. When the head only had been burnt its ashes were placed at the feet of the body. The objects found in the se tombs are extremely interesting ; among them W e may mention 182 bronze vases, the largest of whic h are 90 centimetres in height. Iu those days solder' ing seems to have been unknown, since these vases aro composed of pieces neatly riveted together' Besides these, there are scarfs and belts, not of skill or textile materials, but of thin bronze with are a ' mental chasings, quite similar to those found is Helvetian and ante4toman tombs, as for instance near Besangon; then knives, daggers, swords, an d lanceheads, both bronze and iron ; hatchets of bronze of two principal patterns, one called the celt, and the other the paalstab with four blades; then embe r collars, some very few glass beads, two small gl5O O vases, hundreds of fiSu'te hair-pins, bronze braceletel and other trinkets, some of the latter attached to chains not unlike our modern watchchains ; ale° a deal of ornamental pottery, a few ivory artielest such as knife-handles and sword-hilts, one of whic h is inlaid with amber; and lastly a little gold, be t not a particle of silver, and not a trace of money c r an alphabet. M. Ramseur has &so discovered, 11l the mines themselves, the old galleries worked by the ancient race who se t races h e has b een di sco vered , and the tools with whi c h t h ey h ave been vverited. Tnese tools are bronze pickaxes; and besides one a them there were found a fib u l a lik e t h ose o f th e tombs, some remn an t s o f woo ll en stu ff s an d charecae leather. It a pp ears th at t h ese m i nes must have been worked four centuries before the Christian ere' COUNTRY MARKETS, LEICESTER—SATURDAY. 36 Old white wheat, 40s t o 42 s ; re d , 38 s to 42 s per stone. New white, 40s to 42s per 36 stone. Malting barl ey ' new, 30s to 33s per q r . ; gr i n di ng, 28 s to 3 0s; 0 1d 0 9 4 ,, 26s to 28s; new oats, 2.8 to 25s per 24 stone. 13°931 old, ;'..Bs to 42s per 33 stone ; flour, 31s to 39s per 20 btoao' GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. qaet.; Old white wheat, 42 s t o 45 5 ; re d , 49 s to 43 s per y, new white, 40s to 43 s ; re d, 38 s to 41 8. Malting ba r t 3 32s to 358 per qr ; grinding,' 28s to 30s ; oats, old, ' 2, "' 325; new, 208 to23s; beans, 36a to 445; peas, 343 to 376' YORK—SATURDAY. r 0 We had a good supply o f w h eat on o ff er from the grleces. this morning and a very lat trade doing, about late Pr' Barley a fair show and steady ( emand. Oats scare°. 4 . Wheat, red 3Bs to 40s Oats.... White do ~40s t o 45 s B eans 40 = t° Barley .27s to 32s Peas .... __ S to , -- 5 . , Malt, 58s to 60 8 p er qr . ; rye , 30 s per qr ; dour, 3 to 32s per sack. NOTTING lIAM—SATITIIDAY. l a te The quantity of wheat on offer to-day was fair, Av prices. Beans a healthy s a l e , an d th e same as last n 4 e. —White wheat, from 41s to 48s; red wheat, ,g s to 04 Barley—malting, 32s to 355; grindi ng , 27 s t o 28s- , c —a O1( 40 1 old, at 25s to 30s Od ; new , 22 s t o 25 5. B eans s old to 43s per qr. ; now, 37s to 395. nO. Flour, fine, 27s to 30s; sup er , 32 s t o 37 s rcr 20 st°- NORWICH—SATUnDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat at market lot and prices for all good qua liti es wero t h e sam e " r iceo week. There was a goo d s h ow o f b ar l ey, an d bite P were fully supported. White wheat., 44s to 458 Malting barley 3os to 33s Distilling do 24s io 26s I Flour, 2Gs Od to 26s Gd o lt h e e d v w ali h o e r a wheat...... . r y e y . ........ to , 3 6 1 0 : Oats.. 24.. to 2 .. per sack from the milic• -FRIDAY. a. 0 0. d. 1 3 i o oto 0 Oatmeal - 0 to Beans.. Bere . - 0 to - 5 0 Rapeseed ... • 14 oto 2 0 0 to 28 I B n a d k i e an rs' e ll orn ovr 217 DUBLIN. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 22 0 to 23 6 Do., red .. 20 0 to 21 6 Do., new .... oto 0 Barley Oats Do., black lO 0 to 11 0 CORK-TUES DAY. The following were the quotations this morning ' icy 6) wheat, 7s 6d to S s Id ; w hit e , 8 s 4d t o 8s 8d; 1,31. `0d to 3d to 6s 10d ; oats, os Od to 7s 3d ; black do., 63 68 7d ; here, —s Od. Births. adl ARTHUR—On the 23d inst., ,,, at 24, Queen 's-gate, ""'" I' Elizabeth —On the 23d i Arthur, of a so n. the CALTHORPEnst , at 43, Lowndes - aq uare, Hon. Mrs Somerset G. Calthorp, of a son. ta the LO wife oDeputy Inspector-deneral T. Long re ' 11.1.13) Medical Sta, of a son. PHILLTMORE— ff Oa the 23d inat at B nnoe Airs Mgt" tua Phillimore, of a son. " c'eci' BLACKADElt—GuiNnu M p a fO i n ag th e o l 23d inst , at the P A arl' i ll e cau Carlottarch Carl Guinaud, C I, 1 2 i e s t DL, Charles urobtche a.. young George t B daughterl ackt; cler , 0 11,1 the late —Oa the 22d inst , fit St Lak e' o °P MEIKL ;oreKing's-, London, J. M. D. Meikltjohn, 11 A;;00 Bowdon, Cheshire, to Jane, eldest daughter of 1 10 the Rectory, Cussans, late of H.E.I.C.S. , BERNAYS—Oa Greatthe 22cl s : I n n s w t. Deaths. Ph. Dr., late Professor of Ate German Language ''' Literature at King's College, ld th e HUGHES—On the 22(1 inst. at the Rectory. Nutfieo,,,_, Rev. Edward Hughes, Mb.) London, aged 70. , 0 a r e t the il I h v o . , u A s e a of oi p h h i u s s e 1 13 3 e e s r ri t a ti 3 Oxford, aged 77. 77 9 , ° la Fellow of Jesus C i" LIVINGSTON—On the 221 inst., at his residence, e house androad, P London: Prltif,.d and Pr.titalfed by WILLIAM ANDllb Na 2 ."' o f No. 11 2 , Strand, Printer, at izE sus °trice ) QUI " o i the Precinct of the SAvoy. vi the - - •